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Chef Automate (First 10 nodes free)

Chef | 1.8.85

Linux/Unix, CentOS 7.2 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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48 reviews
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    Information Technology and Services

Chef to automate your infra

  • February 05, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best?
Easy to understand, configure the management of your infrastructure
What do you dislike?
available documentation is less as compare to other tools,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we need to deploy a software developed by our developer, our infrastructure is very complex with different OS, environment, DBs, explorers, with the help of CHEF we did this within stipulated time without any issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to learn, implement, configure, distribute over the landscape, Ruby is the main attraction, can cook the best food for you with its available cookbooks for your infrastructure to automate

    Phil A.

Longtime user and fan of Chef

  • December 27, 2017
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best?
The Chef DK allows you to have a full CI/CD workflow for your infrastructure as code. With chef you can stick to the community cookbooks and boilerplate resources or you can make it do anything you like with raw ruby.
What do you dislike?
As everyone says it can be a bit daunting to get started. Most new development seems to be targeted at enterprises.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Chef, there's no excuse not to have your entire infrastructure as code.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's worth spending a bit more time up front to understand the product than you might with other configuration management solutions. The benefit is much more power and a massive community.

    Food & Beverages

Exective chef at a university

  • December 27, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best?
Being able to feed people with simpe ingrednts
What do you dislike?
At times the lack of knowdgle of the time it takes to make a dish
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Meeting food cost
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Not at this time

    Zach

Doesn't work

  • December 14, 2017
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Attempted to use this with the "Lean Chef Ralley" "Manage a Node with Chef Automate" lesson. UNUSABLE. After trying to do the setup and I get an internal server error and can download the starter kit or login to the automate console. Tried to login via command line as root and with the key I associated wit the server but still nothing.

    ccelis

Setup is getting error 500

  • December 05, 2017
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Hi, after launch the ec2. I try to setup a new org. But after fullfill the form I get a 500 (Internal server error).

Looking in the logs a see the next:

"2017-12-04_21:16:33.32044 200.54.48.178 - - [04/Dec/2017:21:16:33 +0000] "POST /biscotti/setup/starter-kit HTTP/1.1" 500 30 0.0635
2017-12-05_12:50:52.23931 200.54.48.178 - - [05/Dec/2017:12:50:52 +0000] "GET /biscotti/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1780 0.0008
2017-12-05_12:50:52.44307 200.54.48.178 - - [05/Dec/2017:12:50:52 +0000] "GET /biscotti/assets/js/app.js HTTP/1.1" 200 393481 0.0013
2017-12-05_12:50:53.30506 200.54.48.178 - - [05/Dec/2017:12:50:53 +0000] "GET /biscotti/assets/images/icons/all.svg HTTP/1.1" 200 59 0.0005
2017-12-05_12:51:17.89212 200.54.48.178 - - [05/Dec/2017:12:51:17 +0000] "POST /biscotti/ HTTP/1.1" 303 - 0.0008
2017-12-05_12:51:18.08876 200.54.48.178 - - [05/Dec/2017:12:51:18 +0000] "GET /biscotti/setup HTTP/1.1" 200 6495 0.0011
2017-12-05_12:51:18.40693 200.54.48.178 - - [05/Dec/2017:12:51:18 +0000] "GET /biscotti/assets/images/icons/all.svg HTTP/1.1" 200 59 0.0006
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71659 2017-12-05 12:52:08 - Net::HTTPServerException - 409 "Conflict":
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71660 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/lib/ruby/2.4.0/net/http/response.rb:122:in `error!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71661 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/chef-13.4.19/lib/chef/http.rb:152:in `request'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71661 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/chef-13.4.19/lib/chef/http.rb:131:in `post'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71661 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/biscotti/lib/chef_server_setup.rb:41:in `create_org'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71661 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/biscotti/app/extensions/starter_kit_dsl.rb:26:in `setup_chef_server'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71661 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/biscotti/app/routes/setup.rb:13:in `block in '
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71663 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1632:in `call'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71664 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1632:in `block
in compile!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71664 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:991:in `block (
3 levels) in route!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71664 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1010:in `route_
eval'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71664 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:991:in `block (2 levels) in route!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71665 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1037:in `block in process_route'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71665 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1035:in `catch'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71665 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1035:in `process_route'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71665 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:989:in `block in route!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71665 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:988:in `each'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71666 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:988:in `route!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71666 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1094:in `block in dispatch!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71666 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1073:in `block in invoke'
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The version that I have been launch was: 1.7.39-1

    Christopher M.

Chef'ing up Liferay

  • November 24, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best?
I like chef because it uses DSL for configuration instead of XML, Rackspace supports it very well, etc. However the absolute best thing about Chef is the concept of recipes where you can get your platform up and configured extremely easily if that platform has a chef recipe. In addition most large platforms do have chef recipes so it's great! Also, I like that it;s open source
What do you dislike?
Some of the things i dislike about chef, and this might jkust be a criticism of configuration management in general, is that you need pretty much a full team to support it. Sometimes I feel like it adds more complexity instead of kless.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest issue we are solving with Chef is the knowledge gap that exists in new employees when first learning out platforms. previous it would take months for new developers to become effective because they spend several months fighting with the platform, build tools, etc. Chef makes this much less of a hassle
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Learn it well before you try to incorporate it in your enterprise

    what

looks stupid

  • November 19, 2017
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Hi,

I have just launched 6 instances of this chef just to test. None of them worked. I dont even know how this exists. If you are the creator of this AMI contact me if you have another document to connect to your chef. Just a waste of time

    Evan W.

Infrastructure as code never looked so intimidating and yet hopeful

  • September 13, 2016
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best?
The ability to code infrastructure and then run it in action from a single line command is amazing. Imagine spinning up not just 1, but an entire stack of services at once (a whole ecosystem). That's the power of Chef.
What do you dislike?
The problems are myriad. Chef does not have an easy way to pick up for beginners. Most cookbooks are focused on Linux, not Windows. And whenever a deployment breaks, tracing it is a huge pain as there stacktrace is not very informative.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Chef solves the problem of continuously updating and deploying your software ecosystem from scratch for different purposes and even clients. This helps to make infrastructure development verifiable and repeatable.

    Sahil S.

Best tool for unifying development environment in a large team.

  • June 21, 2016
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best?
Chef provides tools for for IT automation and after trying other tools. Its a master client model and is based in Ruby which was really helpful since we were also developing applications in Ruby on Rails.

The best thing about chef is the collection of modules and configuration recipes. Also, its based around Git which everyone is familiar with and 'Knife' tool is very helpful during installations.
What do you dislike?
Learning curve is steep but since we were already using Ruby it was a bit easy for us. Apart from that, its a not a smiple tool, It can lead to very large code bases and complicated environments quickly. One needs to be aware of that. Also, it doesn't support push functionality which other alternatives does.

Chef documentation can also be a little sketchy from time to time. They are more focused on making it work than writing documentations and doesn't provide as much platform support as other alternatives does.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use chef's Application Automation tool 'Habitat' to unify the development enviroment among a large team which can be a disaster while working with frameworks like Ruby on Rails.

    Stewart H.

A workhorse for deployment and configuration

  • June 03, 2016
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best?
The ability to manage multiple environments easily.
What do you dislike?
The domain specific language has a couple of small quirks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used this to manage all of the hosts configurations and applications that we deployed. It was used for all aspects to manage log locations, configurations, and even some kernel level configurations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
https://docs.chef.io/ is your friend! The domain specific language (DSL) can be very hard at times especially for those coming from a non-Ruby programming back-ground.

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